Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 22 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	22 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	43 from 37 nations
Winning time	1:56.51
Medalists
Denis Pankratov  Russia Tom Malchow  United States Scott Goodman  Australia
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Denis Pankratov (RUS)	1:55.22	Canet-en-Roussillon, France	14 June 1995
Olympic record	Melvin Stewart (USA)	1:56.26	Barcelona, Spain	30 July 1992

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Scott Goodman	Australia	1:57.77	Q
2	4	7	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:58.04	Q, NR
3	6	3	James Hickman	Great Britain	1:58.16	Q, NR
4	6	4	Denis Pankratov	Russia	1:58.28	Q
5	4	4	Tom Malchow	United States	1:58.69	Q
6	4	1	Péter Horváth	Hungary	1:58.76	Q
7	4	5	Franck Esposito	France	1:58.79	Q
8	5	5	Scott Miller	Australia	1:58.97	Q
9	6	1	Vesa Hanski	Finland	1:59.73	q, NR
10	6	7	Oliver Lampe	Germany	1:59.87	q
11	6	2	Konrad Gałka	Poland	1:59.97	q
12	5	1	Stefan Aartsen	Netherlands	2:00.04	q
13	4	2	Casey Barrett	Canada	2:00.28	q
14	5	3	Chris-Carol Bremer	Germany	2:00.48	q
15	5	6	Attila Czene	Hungary	2:00.50	q
16	4	3	David Abrard	France	2:00.60	q
17	5	7	Andrea Oriana	Italy	2:00.67
18	5	2	Aleksey Kolesnikov	Russia	2:00.77
19	6	6	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	2:00.81
20	4	6	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	2:00.87
21	6	5	Ray Carey	United States	2:01.10
22	3	3	Dominik Galić	Croatia	2:01.17	NR
23	3	1	Aleksandar Malenko	Macedonia	2:01.46	NR
24	5	8	Nelson Mora	Venezuela	2:01.50
25	3	4	Diogo Madeira	Portugal	2:01.58
26	3	7	Konstantin Andriushin	Kyrgyzstan	2:01.59	NR
27	4	8	Can Ergenekan	Turkey	2:01.65
28	3	6	Vladan Marković	FR Yugoslavia	2:01.80
29	3	5	José Luis Ballester	Spain	2:02.69
30	3	8	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	2:02.84
31	2	2	Anthony Ang	Malaysia	2:03.01	NR
32	2	6	Mindaugas Bružas	Lithuania	2:03.76
33	2	1	Niti Intharapichai	Thailand	2:03.88	NR
34	1	4	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	2:04.01
35	2	4	Lee Jung-hyung	South Korea	2:04.53
36	1	5	Walter Soza	Nicaragua	2:04.66
37	2	7	Javier Golovchenko	Uruguay	2:04.96
38	2	3	Dmitriy Pankov	Uzbekistan	2:05.36
39	2	8	Andrés Vasconcellos	Ecuador	2:05.98
40	3	2	Georgios Popotas	Greece	2:06.00
41	6	8	Thum Ping Tjin	Singapore	2:07.00
42	1	3	Aitor Osorio	Andorra	2:12.59
	2	5	Jesús González	Mexico	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	1	Attila Czene	Hungary	1:58.99
10	4	Vesa Hanski	Finland	1:59.64	NR
11	2	Casey Barrett	Canada	1:59.72
12	5	Oliver Lampe	Germany	2:00.08
13	6	Stefan Aartsen	Netherlands	2:00.41
14	3	Konrad Gałka	Poland	2:00.91
15	8	David Abrard	France	2:01.25
16	7	Chris-Carol Bremer	Germany	2:01.62

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Denis Pankratov	Russia	1:56.51
	2	Tom Malchow	United States	1:57.44
	4	Scott Goodman	Australia	1:57.48
4	1	Franck Esposito	France	1:58.10	NR
5	8	Scott Miller	Australia	1:58.28
6	5	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:58.37
7	3	James Hickman	Great Britain	1:58.47
8	7	Péter Horváth	Hungary	1:59.12